Word: machiavellians
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...field of finance, President Roosevelt has given a good indication of his diplomatic mettle, and at the same time has very definitely strengthened the bargaining power of the United States in the approaching tariff parley with Messrs. Herriot, Bennett, and MacDonald. It was very neatly timed. With seeming Machiavellian finesse, Roosevelt waited until the European statesmen were in Mid-Atlantic, definitely isolated from home counsels, before he announced America's abdication from the gold standard. Their arrival in New York should find them considerably non-plussed...
...they become obsessed with their own drivel, they take themselves seriously, grow dull and tiresome." Or else they overplay their hands, poisoning themselves with their own publicity. It is possible that this is already happening to Huey Long. If this article demonstrates no other sad truths, it shows, with Machiavellian clearness, that Huey is no hard-working rough diamond, but rather a physical embodiment of the law of cunning and the law of force...
With a pace and continuity unusual even among the most capable casts, Fay Bainter, Edith Barrett, George Gaul, and George Baxter keep the audience in an almost constant state of sympathetic suspense throughout the whole play. The characters are four temperamental artists plus a philosophical and Machiavellian old butler. We have always thought the lives of such people were an ideal subject for the playwright. To the conventional member of this work-a-day world, their careers and feelings possess a peculiar fascination. An atmosphere of fairy story illusion pervades all action and this atmosphere provides a desired relief both...
Critic Margaret Bruening (Evening Post), who was not caricatured, found the pastels "handsome portraits which are actually flattering to the sitters." With Machiavellian cunning, Satirist . Bacon who is far from ugly caricatured herself more cruelly (see cut) than she did any of the critics...
...book is full of intriguing and machiavellian scheming. Blood drips off every sentence. Dirty work goes on in dark alleys. All the devices of suspense and terrorism that have been developed since Walpole wrote The Castle of Otronto have been dragged...